States Should Ensure an Enabling Environment for Human Rights Defenders
10 December 2013
On Human Rights Day, the East and Horn of Africa
On Human Rights Day, the East and Horn of Africa
Ladies and gentlemen, Acting Ambassador of the Kingdom of the
Human rights defenders in South Sudan are facing increasingly grave
The adoption of a resolution on protecting women human rights
Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) include women defending all human
EHAHRDP has been published in a special issue on the
Ethiopia’s human rights record will be examined in April 2014
Eritrea’s human rights record will be examined in January 2014, at the 18th session of the Universal Periodic Review by other UN member states. Eritrea will declare what actions it has taken to improve its human rights situation and fulfill its human rights obligations. A review of a State is based on a national report prepared by the State under review; a compilation of United Nations information on the State under review prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR); and a summary of information submitted by other stakeholders (including civil society actors), also prepared by OHCHR.The UPR process provides for the participation of all relevant stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Civil society actors can submit information which can be added to the “other stakeholders” report which is considered during the review. EHAHRDP submitted this report in June 2013.
Pour : Les représentants des Etats africains à l’ONU à
Seventy one African civil society organisations have collectively written to the African Group calling on every African State to live up to their human rights commitments by supporting the draft UN resolution on protecting women human rights defenders, and by taking concrete steps to protect women defenders in their work.